Community and Events Manager

Role Description · March 2026

Volta Labs · Halifax, Nova Scotia

Full-time Reports to: Jaco Burger, CINO · Partners with Laura Simpson Halifax, NS (in-person)

Why This Role Exists

Volta's community comes to life through well-executed events, consistent programming, and operational infrastructure that makes engagement possible at scale. This role owns that execution layer — from flagship events to Sprint logistics to builder-leader support across provinces.

The superpower this role requires is delivery excellence. When scope is clear and the right resources are in place, this role ensures that community members show up to experiences worth showing up to, that Sprint runs without operational friction, and that the data from every event flows back into how Volta makes decisions.

As Volta expands the community function with a Director of Community & Programs, this role gains a strategic partner who sets direction and owns community health. That means this role's scope sharpens — not narrows — to what it does best: events and community operations executed with precision and energy.

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About Volta

Volta Labs is Atlantic Canada's AI-native innovation hub, based in Halifax with operations across all four Atlantic provinces. We run three interconnected things: a Residency program for early-stage founders, an SME AI Lab that places vetted builders with businesses, and a builder community of 251+ AI practitioners across the region. Our community events — 8–10+ per month, hundreds of registrations — are one of our most visible assets and the primary mechanism through which builders connect, develop, and find opportunities.

251

builders in the network across 4 provinces

8–10

events per month — and growing

builders waitlisted for Sprint 1 (launched Feb 24)

Core Responsibilities

Event Strategy, Planning & Execution

Leads the strategy, planning, and end-to-end delivery of all Volta-hosted events — founder programming, AI community meetups, partner activations, and external event bookings. Manages budgets, timelines, vendors, and logistics. Tracks performance and delivers post-event insights to leadership. This is the primary and highest-value focus of the role. Volta runs 8–10+ events per month and growing — the quality and consistency of these experiences is this role's direct output.

Sprint Program Logistics

Owns all operational delivery of the Sprint cohort program — scheduling, venue, tooling setup, session logistics, and builder-leader operational support. Sprint is a 40-hour structured development program (2h/week) for community builders. The Director of Community & Programs owns Sprint strategy and design; this role owns that everything required to run it is in place, on time, and executed well.

Builder-Leader Operational Support

Provides hands-on operational support to builder-leaders running community events and meetups in Halifax and across provinces (NB, PEI, NL). Coordinates logistics, resources, and tooling so that builder-leaders can focus on the community experience, not the admin. As province activation grows, this becomes an increasingly important part of the role.

Community Data Collection & Reporting

Owns the collection of events and community data — registration numbers, attendance, engagement signals — and maintains accurate records in Impact OS and event platforms. This data feeds directly into Volta's community health systems — clean, on-time data from events is the foundation of every community health decision. Without accurate event data, the community picture is incomplete.

Partner & Founder Event Support

Supports partnership conversations by coordinating event-level deliverables, activations, and logistics. Serves as the on-the-ground point of contact for partners during events and community initiatives. Works in close collaboration with Matt on partnership execution — relationship ownership sits with Matt, but the operational delivery of partnership events sits here.

Founder Initiative Execution

Supports and executes founder-facing initiatives in collaboration with the Director of Community & Programs — translating program ideas into concrete events, experiences, and touchpoints. When the Director designs a new founder touchpoint or community initiative, this role makes it happen operationally.

What You Own vs. Work Alongside

Owns

Event strategy, planning & end-to-end execution

Event budgets, vendors & logistics

Sprint program logistics & scheduling

Builder-leader operational support

Event & community data collection

Partner event activation & on-ground coordination

Post-event performance data & reporting

Works Alongside (Not Owns)

Community strategy & health reporting Director, C&P

Builder relationships & community synthesis Director, C&P

External partnerships & relationship ownership Matt

Coaching coordination & program health Director, C&P

Residency program operations & evaluation Director, C&P

Province activation strategy Director, C&P

Working with Laura Simpson — Director, Community Experience

A peer relationship — not a reporting line

Amy and Laura are peers — both report to Jaco Burger directly. This is a flat structure by design. Laura (Director, Community Experience) sets the community strategy, contributes Sprint community synthesis to Matt, owns community data quality and health synthesis, and manages the relationship layer with builder-leaders. This role executes within that strategy — owning all operational delivery end-to-end.

The interface is straightforward: Laura brings the strategy and the direction. You bring the execution excellence. Within events and operations, you are the expert — Laura will collaborate, not override. The scope document between you two (completed by end of April) will make this interface explicit and keep it clean.

What Success Looks Like

Immediate

Clear scope document agreed with Director, C&P

Event data from Jan & Feb captured and in system

Sprint Spring logistics fully planned and ready to run

Q2 event calendar confirmed and communicated

Builder-leader operational support rhythm established

Mid-Year

Sprint Spring cohort running smoothly end-to-end

10+ events/month delivered consistently

Event data flowing into community health report monthly

Partnership event activations executed without friction

Post-event reporting happening within 48 hours

1 yr

Year One

Volta events are a high-quality, recognisable brand experience

Sprint logistics documented as a repeatable system

Builder-leaders across 3+ provinces have reliable operational support

Event performance data is a consistent leadership input

The community shows up because it's always worth showing up to

Who You Are

You are an operational executor — you take an idea or a plan and make it happen, end to end, on time, without needing to be managed through it.

You care about quality — not perfection, but experience. You notice when something is off and you fix it before it affects what the community experiences. You take pride in events that feel well-run.

You are a known presence in the community — builders know your name, feel comfortable approaching you at events, and trust that if they bring you a problem, you'll take care of it.

You thrive with clear scope — you do your best work when you know exactly what you own and can go execute it fully. Ambiguity doesn't energise you; clear ownership does.

You are data-aware — you collect the right information after events, keep records clean, and understand that the numbers you capture become the evidence base for how the community gets supported and funded.

Experience in events management, community operations, or program delivery is your background. You don't need a startup-specific background — but you need to be energised by fast-moving environments where the work is real and the community feedback is immediate.

A Note on This Role

This role is a sharpening, not a narrowing.

For a long time, "Events Manager" at Volta meant "Events Manager + acting community manager + whatever else needs doing" — an ambiguous, provisional framing that made it harder to do any of it brilliantly.

The Community and Events Manager title reflects what this role does best: operational excellence across events and community programming. The scope is sharper — which means the opportunity to do it at a genuinely high level is real.

Laura's arrival as Director, Community Experience doesn't create a layer above you that diminishes the role — it creates a strategic partner who sets direction so you can focus on the execution that you're best at. Amy and Laura both report to Jaco — this is a flat, peer structure by design. Volta events run 8–10+ per month, 200–300+ registrations. Sprint is brand new and building. Builder-leaders across four provinces need operational support. That's this role's work — and it matters.